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Blind eyes of justice,
Deaf ears of power
Dumb moves on money
Left us in a desperate hour
Economy
Connin' me out of my sanity

Rebellious revolution
Is this the final solution?

Hands in surrender,
Killed in they tracks
Babies, women raped
Leaders on they back
Religious delusions
Stone confusion

Rebellious revolution
Is this the final solution?

The proof of man's insanity
The truth of war's inhumanity
Let's all just pray on it right now!

Guerrilla warfare
Lady Liberty
Propaganda,
Hypocrisy
Did we lose our Constitution?

Rebellious revolution
Is this the final solution?
Rebellious revolution
Is this the final solution?
The final solution

Revolution / Dr. John

News and Opinion

Warsaw sends troops to border, accusing Belarus of violating its airspace

Poland has rushed troops to its eastern border after accusing Belarus, Russia’s closest ally, of violating its airspace with military helicopters. The Belarusian military denied any such violation and accused Poland, a Nato member and one of Ukraine’s most fervent backers in its conflict with Russia, of inventing the accusation to justify a buildup of its troops.

Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko had earlier taunted Poland over the presence of Russian Wagner mercenaries near their joint border.

Poland’s defence ministry said it was sending “additional forces and resources, including combat helicopters”. It said it had informed Nato of the border violation and Belarus’s chargé d’affaires had been summoned to provide an explanation.

The Polish military initially denied any border violation had occurred but later, after consultations, said the intrusion took place “at a very low height, hard to intercept by radar”.

Belarus’s defence ministry, writing on Telegram, said Warsaw had changed its mind about the incident “apparently after consulting its overseas masters”.

Ukraine's drone swarm strategy

Ukraine Says It Will Start Talks With US on Security Guarantees

A Ukrainian official said Sunday that Kyiv will begin consultations with Washington this week on the US providing Ukraine with security guarantees.

“We are starting talks with the United States (this) week,” Andriy Yermak, chief of staff for President Volodymyr Zelensky, wrote on Telegram. “Security guarantees for Ukraine will be concrete, long-term obligations ensuring Ukraine’s capacity to defeat and restrain Russian aggression in the future. These will be clearly drafted formats and mechanisms of support.”

The State Department confirmed on Monday that the talks would begin this week. At the recent NATO summit in Vilnius, the US and other G7 nations vowed that they would each begin negotiations on bilateral security deals with Ukraine. Yermak said the idea is for the guarantees to be in effect until “Ukraine secures NATO membership.”

Mexico Calls for Russia’s Participation in Saudi-Hosted Ukraine Talks

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Monday that his country would attend talks on Ukraine that are set to be held in Saudi Arabia this weekend only if Russia is invited.

“If there’s acceptance from both Ukraine and Russia to look for solutions to achieve peace, we’ll participate,” Lopez Obrador said, according to Reuters. “We don’t want the Russia-Ukraine war to continue, it’s very irrational … The only thing that benefits from it is the war industry.”

While being billed as peace talks, Russia has not been invited to the summit in Saudi Arabia. Nations that are not aligned with the US and NATO on the war have been invited, including India, Brazil, and China, but it’s not clear at this point which countries will attend.

Russia Says Has Intensified Attacks on Ukraine

Moscow has intensified strikes on Ukrainian military infrastructure in response to attacks on Russian-controlled territory, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Monday.

“Against the background of the failure of the so-called ‘counteroffensive’, Kyiv… has focused on carrying out terrorist attacks on civilian infrastructure,” Shoigu said.

“The intensity of our strikes against Ukrainian military facilities.. has been considerably increased,” he added.

Spain’s acting PSOE-Podemos/Sumar government carries out huge military spending increases

The coalition government of the Socialist Party and Podemos, now integrated in Sumar, is continuing to shower billions of euros on the Spanish military and the US-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine. That a temporary, acting government, seeking the formation of a viable coalition after last month’s inconclusive elections, is making war preparations is a warning. Whatever government is formed, whether led by the right-wing Popular Party (PP) or the PSOE with Sumar, imperialist war abroad and the war on workers at home will continue.

In last month’s conference of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, known as the Ramstein format, acting Defense Minister Margarita Robles confirmed that Spain was sending four additional Leopard tanks, 10 armoured transports, 10 trucks, three civilian ambulances, an armoured ambulance and a field hospital. She announced the shipment of new batches of light weapons and large-caliber heavy ammunition and confirmed that 1,900 Ukrainian soldiers have already been trained in Spanish territory.

Spain is also part of NATO’s advanced plans to deploy tens of thousands of NATO troops near the Russian border. At the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez (PSOE) promised to send 800 soldiers to Slovakia for the first time, while the number of troops in Romania will be increased by 250. There are currently 1,150 troops deployed in Romania, Poland and the Baltics. Eight F-16 jet fighters are also stationed in Romania. ...

The acting government’s role recalls the darkest traditions of Spanish imperialism’s alliance with Nazism against Russia. During World War II, the fascist regime of General Francisco Franco sent the Blue Division of 47,000 soldiers to Russia as a thank you to Hitler for his support in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) in crushing the working class. Eighty years after the Blue Division’s oath to Hitler in July 1941 and its incorporation into the Wehrmacht as the 250th Division, Spanish tanks, weapons and ammunition are again rolling against Russia.

Meta to end news access in Canada over publisher payment law

Meta has begun the process to end access to news on Facebook and Instagram for all users in Canada, the company said on Tuesday. The move comes in response to legislation in the country requiring internet giants to pay news publishers.

Meta’s communications director, Andy Stone, said the changes will roll out in the coming weeks.

Canada’s heritage minister, Pascale St-Onge, who is in charge of the government’s dealings with Meta, called the move irresponsible.

“[Meta] would rather block their users from accessing good quality and local news instead of paying their fair share to news organizations,” St-Onge said in a statement on Tuesday. “We’re going to keep standing our ground. After all, if the government can’t stand up for Canadians against tech giants, who will?”

Judge blocks Idaho from prosecuting doctors who refer patients out of state for abortions

A US judge on Monday blocked the state of Idaho at least temporarily from prosecuting doctors who refer patients out of state to get an abortion, finding that would violate a medical provider’s right to free speech.

Judge B Lynn Winmill of the federal district of Idaho agreed with a challenge led by Planned Parenthood that the interpretation of the Republican attorney general, Raul Labrador, of the state’s criminal abortion law was “chilling” to providers’ rights to free speech under the first amendment of the constitution.

Idaho’s abortion ban calls for revoking the license of any healthcare professional who assists in performing an abortion. Labrador interpreted the word “assists” as prohibiting an Idaho medical provider from referring a woman across state lines for an abortion.

But the judge found Labrador’s interpretation went too far and enjoined him from prosecuting such cases until an underlying legal challenge to the abortion law is settled in court.

“The court finds that the medical providers have established that there is a genuine threat of prosecution. This threat has resulted in the chilling of the medical providers’ speech – a well-established concrete injury,” wrote Winmill, who was appointed during the presidency of Bill Clinton, a Democrat.

Democrats Already RIGGING Primary To Screw RFK Jr.!

Liberal MSM RUNS DEFENSE For Hunter Biden, Claim Joe Was Just BEING POLITE

Donald Trump faces four charges over efforts to overturn 2020 election

Federal prosecutors have charged Donald Trump over his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in a desperate attempt to stay in power, the latest criminal case before the former president that comes just weeks after he was charged with retaining national defense information.

The indictment, filed in federal district court in Washington, charges Trump with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, one count of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.

Over the course of 45 pages, the indictment brought by the special counsel Jack Smith outlined in stark detail how Trump and his allies knowingly spread false allegations of election fraud, convened fraudulent electors and attempted to block the certification of the election on January 6.

The indictment also listed six co-conspirators who played central roles in the plot to keep Trump in office. While they were unnamed, the descriptions of five of the six matched those of the Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, John Eastman, Ken Chesebro as well as the former US justice department official Jeff Clark. ...

The charges marked the first time Trump has faced criminal charges for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. They also have come at an extraordinary moment in American politics – an abrupt accounting of an attempted coup. It is also the first time a US president has faced criminal charges for trying to overturn the election.

CNN Host BAFFLED By Existence Of Trump Voters

‘Shameful loss’: wolves declared extinct in Andalucía

For centuries, wolves have roamed the mountain ranges of Andalucía in southern Spain, but after years of decline the creature has been officially declared extinct in the region. Since 2003, the regional government has carried out a census of the wolf (Canis lupus signatus) population in an effort to monitor the species and reduce conflict with the local population, farmers in particular.

However, in a report, the Andalucian government’s environment department says that “since 2020 there has been no sign of the wolf being present in Andalucía”, in spite of it being a protected species.

Up until at least 2010 it was estimated there were six to eight wolfpacks in the region, mostly in the Sierra Morena, comprising up to 56 individuals. Despite the wolf being declared extinct only now, experts say there has not been any evidence of wolves in Andalucía since 2013, and probably no reproductive group since 2003.

“This is bad news and it confirms the negative trend for the few existing wolfpacks in southern Spain, which are threatened through being physically and genetically isolated from wolves in the rest of Spain, by loss of habitat, poaching and illegal hunting,” said Luis Suárez, the conservation coordinator for the World Wildlife Fund in Spain. “The shameful loss of wolves in Andalucía is directly related to the lack of political will on the part of the regional government to adopt conservation measures,” Suárez added. ...

Suárez said that for years the government had been paralysed by fear of a confrontation with the hunting lobby and livestock farmers and had limited itself to monitoring the wolf population. “Now it has a responsibility to get to work to guarantee the return of this species to the southern mountains as soon as possible,” he said. “There is no time for excuses.”

Earth Overshoot Day: Humans surpass what Earth can produce in a year

Erratic winds pose fresh threat to firefighters as rain helps with Mojave desert fire

Firefighters have managed to partially contain a giant wildfire in the Mojave desert that scorched tens of thousands of acres of scrub and sent smoke across the Las Vegas Strip. The York fire was mapped at roughly 125 sq miles (323.7 sq km) on Tuesday, with 23% containment, making it the largest wildfire of the season in California.

A brief but heavy downpour on Tuesday helped crews battling the fire, but meteorologists warned of the potential for sudden and erratic wind shifts that could endanger crews later on.

The blaze erupted on Friday near the remote Caruthers Canyon area of the vast wildland preserve, crossed the state line into Nevada on Sunday and sent smoke further east into the Las Vegas valley. Midday Monday, a smoky haze on the Las Vegas Strip obliterated views of mountains surrounding the city and suburbs. Because of low visibility, the Harry Reid international airport in Las Vegas reported departure delays of nearly two hours.

Tuesday brought a 15-minute downpour that helped firefighting efforts, but thunderstorms could pose problems if they pass over the area, said Clay Morgan, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Las Vegas.

If the storms miss the flames entirely, crews could face unstable wind conditions – with gusts up to 40mph (64 km/h) – and risk having the fire blown back at them, Morgan said.

Billionaire investor threatens to pull out of UK amid global outcry at new oil rush

The billionaire Australian mining tycoon and investor Andrew Forrest has led international condemnation of the UK’s new oil rush, saying he would pull his major investment from the country if the prime minister pursued “clickbait” fossil fuel policies. The iron ore magnate, who also runs the Minderoo Foundation philanthropic organisation, threatened to move his investments out of the UK over Rishi Sunak’s swivel towards new oil and gas drilling.

“I am a major investor here,” Forrest told Bloomberg News on a visit to London. “If I see this country steering itself over a cliff backing fossil fuel, I am going to start pulling out. I will push my investments over to North America … I must invest where I know I have proper leadership, not leadership which is on a clickbait cycle.”

Forrest, one of the wealthiest people in Australia, is a major proponent of green hydrogen where the power is produced from renewables. His Fortescue Future Industries investment vehicle has a cash mountain of billions of dollars and has signed a major deal with JCB, as well as building a factory to produce batteries and electric powertrains for heavy industry vehicles and trains in Oxfordshire.

The prime minister’s announcement that more than 100 new oil and gas drilling licences would be granted for the North Sea in the autumn has sparked condemnation from climate scientists, energy experts and some within his own party.

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Donald Trump: The Real Victim of the Russiagate Hoax Wasn't Me. It Was the American People

Sanctions Are Working / Have Failed

Blinken Backs West African Nations’ Threat to Use Force Against Niger Coup

How to Ignore 4.5 Million Deaths

Tribes to EPA: Ban Fish-Killing Tire Chemical 6PPD

Oldest species of swimming jellyfish discovered in 505m-year-old fossils

Gonzalo Lira seeks political asylum in Hungary

Blinken, US will NOT drop Assange charges. Trump indictment. Politico, no Ukraine breakthrough.

Ukr Offensive Stuck, Soldiers Tell MSM Heavy Losses, Shoigu: Ukr Lost 20K troops July, Niger Crisis

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